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Nagasaki's A-bombing history & local Japanese garden

The Urakami cathedral in the Sakura season

The Mihara garden cafe

The peace park

The atomic bomb museum

The cathedral museum

The Mihara garden

The hypocenter park

Nagasaki's A-bombing history & local Japanese garden

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Joined 2025

Yuki K.

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Nagasaki

English, Japanese (Native)

7 hours

Private tour (only you and Yuki K.)

Up to 6 people

In this tour, with a guide, you will visit the atomic bomb museum, the hypocenter park, the peace park, and the Urakami cathedral. Then, a local Japanese garden that established by a local gardener from Nagasaki.

Itinerary

This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!

08:00 AM

Meeting Point

At a hotel lobby or the Matsugae cruise ship terminal

- A guide goes to a hotel where you stay, or the Matsugae cruise ship terminal if you come by a cruise ship. As meeting, this tour starts.

08:30 AM

The atomic bomb museum

From the meeting point, we will take a bus by one-day-eticket. (A guide can purchase the eticket by her phone and use it for both of you & her)

After taking a bus off at the closest stop, we will go up a slope to the museum.

(Only weekends & holidays, some buses can stop in front of the museum)

10:00 AM

The hypocenter park

After the atomic bomb museum, we go down stairs to the hypocenter park. (At the present, the elevator to the park doesn't work) The park has another name "Ground zero" means that the A-bombing blast spreat from the point.

10:20 AM

The peace park

The peace park is next to the hypocenter park, crossing a road. The park has small statues from the countries & a bigger statue from Nagasaki, designed by Mr. Seibo Kitamura.

11:00 AM

The Urakami cathedral

This cathedral is perfectly rebuilt now, but used to be destroyed by the atomic bomb. In the cathedral area, sometimes, a free museum, too, about the cathedral history is open for everyone. In front of the cathedral, there is a high slope that have to go up.

11:40 AM

Leave the Urakami cathedral & go down a slope to the bus stop

We take a bus at the Catholic Center Mae for the Mihara garden, the local Japanese garden, by one-day-eticket.

12:00 PM

Take a bus off at the Teraida bus stop

After taking a bus off at the bus stop, we walk to the garden for 5 minutes. On the way to the garden, there is a short slope to go down. But the Japanese styled garden is so beautiful.

12:10 PM

The Mihara garden

This garden are separated to some blocks. Each block has different designed garden. You can take a break or have western styled lunch at the garden cafe. The cafe is a botanical styled, and doesn't have Japanese foods.

01:50 PM

Leave the garden & walk to the Teraida bus stop

Just in case, we leave the garden ealier than 14:00 for the bus at 14:09 to the peace park bus stop. The bus arrived at 14:23, then we switch a bus at 14:27 from the peace park bus stop for the Shinchi China town.

02:40 PM

Arrive at the Shinchi China town bus stop & walk to the hotel or the Matsugae cruise ship terminal

If you're going back to the terminal, you can see the edge of the ship from the bus stop. So, we walk back to the meeting point to finish this tour.

Ending Point

A hotel you stay or the Matsugae cruise ship terminal

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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.

Inclusions & Exclusions

What‘s included

*Guide fee

*Guide's one-day-eticket for buses

*Atomic bomb museum's fee for a guide(She passed the local exam)

What‘s not included

*One-day-eticket for buses(If you have IC card like Suica, you can use yours. In the case, too, your public transport fee isn't included)

*Taxi fee(If you need)

*Meals & drink at the garden cafe

*Admission fee for the atomic bomb museum(200yen per adult)

(The hypocenter park, the peace park, and the Mihara garden are free)

*100 yen of donation to the Urakami cathedral

(Admission fee for the cathedral is free, but it needs 100 yen by cash for donation for the maintenance, per one group)

Tour Important Information

*Geographycally, this city including the tour points, has some slopes & steps.

*Wearing sneakers is the best for visitors.

*This tour is not recommended for those with sever back/knee problems or with wheelchair.

*Please let me know in advance if you have any food allergies or any food limits.

On August 1st to 10th, and December 31st to January 2nd are not available.

On the former dates, the peace park is severely limited to enter due to the peace ceremony on August 9th. On the latter date, the Mihara garden is closed.

Important message from the supplier

Every 2nd Saturday isn't available because I'm a volunteer member of the Peace Promotion Association.

Not only Nagasaki, I can guide you in Sasebo, Unzen, and other smaller cities in the prefecture if you pay my transportation fee.

Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time

Joined 2025

Yuki K.

5.00 / 5

(4 reviews)

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About Tour Guide Yuki K.

In 2025, it's the 3rd year as a private tour guide. I speak English and German a little. My hobbies are knitting, handicrafts of earrings and keychains, writing & reading novels in Japanese, and searching for good cafes. Next year, I'm about starting to garden for vegetables and harbs. The main place of a tour is Nagasaki city, including the war hisotory spots. I'd like to guide you to the cities of Sasebo, Saikai, and Unzen, too, if you hope. But I don't have a driving lisence, so transport

while your tour is necessary. I'm good at a family tour for your young kids, too. I like kids, so I'd like to suggest some ideas for their playing in the Nagasaki prefecture.

Reviews

Karen I.

5 / 5

Apr 29, 2026

The local history in Nagasaki about the damage by the atomic bomb